Hi! I’m Jesse. I’m a writer and a DJ on WFMU. The Frow Show airs live late-night every Monday from midnight to 3am on WFMU–91.1 in NYC, etc.–and wherever in time-space you are through the archive. You can follow along with whatever I’m currently doing by way of Twitter.

My newest book, Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America, came out in 2016 through Da Capo and is out in the universe now. You can read more about it (and order it) here. The paperback will be out in September 2018. You can find out about all upcoming Heads events (and get psychedelic news and history) via the good ol’ @HeadsNews Twitter account.

I’m currently at work on a new book, Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the American Soul, scheduled for publication by Da Capo on Election Day, 2018.

I’ve also launched a more personal newsletter, to be dispatched judiciously, with book news, recent articles, Frow Show updates, links, and other ephemera.

Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock came out in 2012 via Gotham Books. You can acquire it via Powell’s or other fine book purveyors. A Spanish translation by music journalist Ignacio Julià is available through Sones. Follow @big_day_coming for rare YLT/indie nuggets, current setlists, playlists, ephemera, deep cuts, and book news.

I’ve got a highlights reel of favorite articles and miscellaneous writing here. All episodes of the Frow Show are archived. I’ve written liner notes for the Grateful Dead, Numero Group, RVNG, and others, and talk about that and related/unrelated topics in an interview I did with dead.net.

A few years ago, I helped assemble and wrote lots of notes for a DVD of my father’s animation, called Celestial Navigations: The Short Films of Al Jarnow, produced by the truly excellent humans at Numero Group, collecting the films he made for Sesame Street and elsewhere.

Some pieces I’ve done have been featured in collections. I’ve also done a bit of educational writing. There’s lots of material scattered around this site, mostly under the category headers on the right-hand column.